Studies towards the Synthesis of Rapamycin: Regiocontrol in the Addition of Carbanions to Enantiomerically Pure Epoxides and the Formation of a Highly Substituted Tetrahydrofuran

Kyungsoo Oh; David Cheshire; Philip J. Parsons

doi:10.1055/s-2005-869868

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Studies towards the Synthesis of Rapamycin: Regiocontrol in the Addition of Carbanions to Enantiomerically Pure Epoxides and the Formation of a Highly Substituted Tetrahydrofuran

Kyungsoo Oh^a, David Cheshire^b, Philip J. Parsons*^a
^a Department of Chemistry, School of Life Sciences, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9QJ, UK
e-Mail: P.J.Parsons@sussex.ac.uk;
^b Department of Medicinal Chemistry, AstraZeneca Charnwood Laboratories, Bakewell Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire LE11 5RH, UK

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Reaction of trimethylaluminium, dimethyllithium cuprate and lithium tetramethylaluminate with the homochiral epoxide 8 has been studied. Intermolecular epoxide ring-opening was observed with dimethyllithium cuprate and lithium tetramethylaluminate, but acetal ring-opening followed by intramolecular epoxide ring-opening was observed with trimethylaluminium.

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rapamycin - epoxide-opening - substituted tetrahydrofuran - trimethylaluminium - lithium tetramethylaluminate

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